Season-related changes in circulating androgen, brain aromatase, and perch-calling in male ring doves

Seasonal expression of androgen receptor

Seasonal expression of androgen receptors, estrogen receptors, and aromatase in the canary brain in relation to circulating androgens and estrogens

✍ Fusani, Leonida ;Van't Hof, Thomas ;Hutchison, John B. ;Gahr, Manfred 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 348 KB 👁 1 views

Songbirds have a complex neural network for learning and production of song, namely the neural song system. Several nuclei of the song system contain androgen receptors (AR), and the neostriatal nucleus HVc also contains alpha type estrogen receptors (ER). Many songbird species show seasonal changes